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The response to the who

The response to the who

Chapter 12 — The government • 12.01 — The political system • Paragraph 6 • §12.01.06.00

monarchy, oligarchy or democracy: A political system’s way of dealing with the question of who comprises the government has given us the distinction between monarchy (one person), oligarchy (a few people) and democracy (all the people). Little has changed since Plato put these distinctions in writing (himself classifying what was already known to humans by that time)—but, of course, in reality, in the analogue world at least, no other conceivable options are possible.

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